service_provider.conf

- service provider configuration file

Synopsis

service_provider.conf

Description

service_provider.conf contains information about the device type that the service provider supports.
This information includes the pathname of the service provider library, the library
version and other library characteristics that are required by the system administrative command,
datadm(1M). datadm(1M) puts this information in the DAT static register file, dat.conf(4).

The datadm program enumerates each device entry into a list of interface
adapters, that is, interfaces to external network that are available to uDAPL
consumers. This new list of interface adapters is appended to other service
providers' information in the DAT static registry, dat.conf. You can do this
is you invoke the datadm program with the -a option and the
pathname of the service_provider.conf file.

Each entry in the service_provider.conf is a single line of 7 fields.

The following shows the order of the fields in a service_provider.conf entry: